NCT04500314

Efficacy of Whole-body Vibration on Balance Control, Postural Stability and Mobility After Thermal Burn Injuries.

Efficacy of Whole-body Vibration on Balance Control, Postural Stability and Mobility After Thermal Burn Injuries. Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will be conducted to investigate the effect of whole-body vibration device on Balance control, postural Stability and mobility after thermal burn injuries.

Detailed description

40 patients with deep second-degree burn involving the lower limbs and trunk (TBSA: 35-40%), will be randomly assigned either into the experimental group, received whole body vibration (WBV) plus the routine physical therapy program or the control group, received the same routine physical therapy program. All treatment interventions will be applied at a frequency of three sessions per week for 8 weeks. Anteroposterior stability (APS), Medial lateral stability (MLS), Time up and go test (TUG) test, and Berg balance scale will be the outcome measures of the study.

Conditions

• Thermal Burn

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	whole body vibration device	20 patients will receive vibration training on vibration platform (Power Plate International, Irvine, California, USA) at a frequency of 25-30 Hz and amplitude of 3-5mm, plus traditional physical therapy program 3 sessions per week for total period of 8 weeks. The total duration of the WBV training stimulus will 10 min in first week and progress gradually to 25 min in the 8th week with regular increase by 5 minutes after each 2 successive weeks
OTHER	routine physical therapy treatment	The program consists of 60 minutes supervised and individualized stretching exercise to all involved muscles followed by strengthening for affected muscles, mobilizing exercise for the joints involved to increase the joint range of motion, in addition to scar management techniques including pressure garments, inserts, and physical agent modalities , to avoid scar or contracture formation

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-05
• Primary completion: 2020-12-25
• Completion: 2020-12-28
• First posted: 2020-08-05
• Last updated: 2021-03-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt